linking a program with Windows Media Player

[thebarslider]

Dear All,

I have developed a dialog program to record to mp3. I now wish to get the dialog to accept an mp3 file an play it. I've heard it is possible to some how link to windows media player to play the mp3 file. Another method is to use direct x but this looks overly complex to me.

Any suggestions or related websites would be much appreciated.

Thank you to anyone who responds.

Mark.

 

[palbano]

>> I've heard it is possible to some how link to windows
>> media player

Do you understand the potential techniques for using other applications in a MS Windows environment? If so then you just research those techniques for the given application and you will have your solution. In the case of Microsoft applications the main source of information is msdn.microsoft.com. In the case of Microsoft applications the technique they generally use is COM. So doing a search on msdn for "media player COM" finds this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...embeddingtheplayercontrolinacustomprogram.asp

-pete

 

[thebarslider]

Dear Pete,

I have researched this and understand how to implement it now.

Thanks.

Mark.